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GRIMM REMIXED: Volume 1: Couture, Curse, and Catastrophe
Once upon a time never paid rent.
Fairy tales got evicted from the castle — now they squat in cities, dance on runways, and riot in nightclubs.
In Grimm Volume One – Couture, Curse, and Catastrophe, the Brothers Grimm are dragged out of the forest and into the warehouses, squats, drag balls, queer communes. These are 25 retellings stitched together from rust, glitter, rage, and love.
Inside you’ll find stories with a cigarette burn on the page and eyeliner smudged across the
Glitter Underground (The Little Folks’ Presents) — Vienna, 1999. Two squatters discover invisible helpers who fix pipes, leave strange gifts, and hate being photographed. magic and capitalism don’t mix.
The Twelve Lazy Servants (The Twelve Lazy Servants) — San Francisco, 1997. Twelve punks, one squat, zero motivation. The fire alarm is screaming, but so are they.
Where the Shell Hides Her (The Sea-Hare) — Amalfi Coast, 1996. A queen wires her villa with cameras and dares a wanderer to disappear. The sea has other ideas.
The Glow-Up at Haus of Glass (Cinderella) — Berlin, 2025. Cinderella walks the drag runway in heels sharp enough to draw blood. Midnight isn’t a deadline when the house queens have your back.
Thread Count (The Three Spinners) — Three ancient seamstresses, a cursed bargain, and a reminder that productivity is the cruelest spell of all.
Refractions of Silence (The Glass Coffin) — A queer reflection trapped in glass refuses to stay buried.
Steel-Toe Souls (The Elves and the Shoemaker) — A factory-floor invisible workers leave shoes no corporation can afford.
Gaslight Gourmet (Clever Gretel) — Dinner service comes with sabotage, knives, and a chef who knows exactly how to make you regret seconds.
Heat-Seeker (The Iron Stove) — What if your prison was also your desire? An inferno of love and danger sealed behind metal.
Sensitive Saves the World (The Queen Bee) — Finally, the quiet sibling wins — with kindness instead of cruelty.
Hell Root & Wine (The Peasant and the Devil) — A vineyard deal gone very wrong, or very right, depending on your taste in drinking partners.
And more Ash and Memory (The Old Woman in the Wood), The Thirteenth Silence (The Twelve Brothers), Runway of Thorns (Hans My Hedgehog), Aisle of You (Fair Katrinelje and Pif-Paf-Poltrie).
What makes this remix different?
Queer, sharp, and modern — magic belongs to punks, drag queens, activists, and runaways.
Urban grit, fairy-tale glow — smoke, neon, and enchantment, all in one.
Fairy tales got evicted from the castle — now they squat in cities, dance on runways, and riot in nightclubs.
In Grimm Volume One – Couture, Curse, and Catastrophe, the Brothers Grimm are dragged out of the forest and into the warehouses, squats, drag balls, queer communes. These are 25 retellings stitched together from rust, glitter, rage, and love.
Inside you’ll find stories with a cigarette burn on the page and eyeliner smudged across the
Glitter Underground (The Little Folks’ Presents) — Vienna, 1999. Two squatters discover invisible helpers who fix pipes, leave strange gifts, and hate being photographed. magic and capitalism don’t mix.
The Twelve Lazy Servants (The Twelve Lazy Servants) — San Francisco, 1997. Twelve punks, one squat, zero motivation. The fire alarm is screaming, but so are they.
Where the Shell Hides Her (The Sea-Hare) — Amalfi Coast, 1996. A queen wires her villa with cameras and dares a wanderer to disappear. The sea has other ideas.
The Glow-Up at Haus of Glass (Cinderella) — Berlin, 2025. Cinderella walks the drag runway in heels sharp enough to draw blood. Midnight isn’t a deadline when the house queens have your back.
Thread Count (The Three Spinners) — Three ancient seamstresses, a cursed bargain, and a reminder that productivity is the cruelest spell of all.
Refractions of Silence (The Glass Coffin) — A queer reflection trapped in glass refuses to stay buried.
Steel-Toe Souls (The Elves and the Shoemaker) — A factory-floor invisible workers leave shoes no corporation can afford.
Gaslight Gourmet (Clever Gretel) — Dinner service comes with sabotage, knives, and a chef who knows exactly how to make you regret seconds.
Heat-Seeker (The Iron Stove) — What if your prison was also your desire? An inferno of love and danger sealed behind metal.
Sensitive Saves the World (The Queen Bee) — Finally, the quiet sibling wins — with kindness instead of cruelty.
Hell Root & Wine (The Peasant and the Devil) — A vineyard deal gone very wrong, or very right, depending on your taste in drinking partners.
And more Ash and Memory (The Old Woman in the Wood), The Thirteenth Silence (The Twelve Brothers), Runway of Thorns (Hans My Hedgehog), Aisle of You (Fair Katrinelje and Pif-Paf-Poltrie).
What makes this remix different?
Queer, sharp, and modern — magic belongs to punks, drag queens, activists, and runaways.
Urban grit, fairy-tale glow — smoke, neon, and enchantment, all in one.
356 pages, Hardcover
Published August 16, 2025
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About the author
Alen Kašner
5 books1 followerWriter • Folklore Remixer • Caffeine Enthusiast
I twist fairy tales until they glitch, bleed, or shine in ways you’ve never seen before.
My GRIMM REMIXED series collides folklore with technology, sarcasm, and the occasional bloodstain.
Not bedtime stories—these are the ones that keep you up too late.
Fueled by coffee and bizarre Google searches, I write worlds where:
✨ glitches become prophecies
✨ myths refuse to stay buried
✨ characters fight their way out of archetypes
My stories remind us that folklore isn’t dead. It’s alive, mutating, and whispering through the wires of our world.
I twist fairy tales until they glitch, bleed, or shine in ways you’ve never seen before.
My GRIMM REMIXED series collides folklore with technology, sarcasm, and the occasional bloodstain.
Not bedtime stories—these are the ones that keep you up too late.
Fueled by coffee and bizarre Google searches, I write worlds where:
✨ glitches become prophecies
✨ myths refuse to stay buried
✨ characters fight their way out of archetypes
My stories remind us that folklore isn’t dead. It’s alive, mutating, and whispering through the wires of our world.
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September 6, 2025
GRIMM REMIXED: Volume 1 is an entertaining book where the author takes famous fairy tales and gives a completely new touch to them; very akin to music which is remixed nowadays to suit a niche audience.
Almost all of the stories are quite bizarre and they have some good twists in them. The characters inserted in the tales are both interesting and wacky where squats, drag balls, queers and invisible helpers have a field day.
The best part of the book is that there is always something strange happening in almost all the tales and this is where the author succeeds.
Overall, its a good book to pick if you want to re-visit the classics but in a completely different setting.
Almost all of the stories are quite bizarre and they have some good twists in them. The characters inserted in the tales are both interesting and wacky where squats, drag balls, queers and invisible helpers have a field day.
The best part of the book is that there is always something strange happening in almost all the tales and this is where the author succeeds.
Overall, its a good book to pick if you want to re-visit the classics but in a completely different setting.
September 16, 2025
GRIMM REMIXED: Volume 1 is an engaging book. I am not aware of many of the fairy tales so I just cannot talk for those but that been said I liked most of the stories. For me it is partly Remix and partly new mix.
I sure would not get into the details of the stories so the reader can enjoy the read thyself. Sure, they are good and a good book to read. Again, I would not account for all the stories but over all most of them are good.
Thanks to the author to give me a review copy for my honest review. I rate it 3.75 of 5, yet recommend to readers, partly because I never had heard all the tales in the book earlier.
I sure would not get into the details of the stories so the reader can enjoy the read thyself. Sure, they are good and a good book to read. Again, I would not account for all the stories but over all most of them are good.
Thanks to the author to give me a review copy for my honest review. I rate it 3.75 of 5, yet recommend to readers, partly because I never had heard all the tales in the book earlier.
September 5, 2025
Highly interesting. Full of surprises - well, for me anyway.
I love any story that has that feel of 'fairytale magic' to it...and darkness.
I think this book delivered both, but I wish there were more to it.
I love any story that has that feel of 'fairytale magic' to it...and darkness.
I think this book delivered both, but I wish there were more to it.
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